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It's just scientific fact that they love being slaves to corporations unlike us, the proudly independent and individualistic Westerners smuglord

Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had once wanted to do a private film streaming within my own private Discord server, but a japanese in the group objected to it, saying that Discord TOS did not allow us to stream films, and if we did that would be piracy.

I encounter plenty of anti-piracy nerds day-to-day. What makes this dude so special it warrants handwaving their whole country? My brother complained about piracy for a time I downloaded a movie to watch in a place without broadband. I finally bought a digital copy on Google Play just to shut him up about it.

These no-fun-allowed dweebs are absolutely everywhere.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't fool me- your brother's clearly also Japanese

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

When people drop the noun meant to follow the adjective they are almost always telling on themselves about something, in this case racism

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

The most anti-piracy people I know are all white

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

crackers love to argue you with in cyberspace that blocking ads is immoral

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

using google like a social media website and furiously typing in "emulator illegal" into the search bar to make my voice heard

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Source: I was on a Discord with a Japanese dude

Ahh the Japanese!

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Anyone who thinks Japanese people always follow rules should take a short drive on the highway system, especially in Tokyo where doing 80 in a 50 zone is extremely common. Afterwards they can drive the surface roads and count the number of illegally parked cars illegally idling with engines on.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yes. I spent some time living in northern Kanto, which is famous for its car dependancy, and absolutely everyone drove 20-40 KPH above the limit. Sixty KPH (which is generally the highest speed limit outside of highways) is equivalent to around 37 MPH, so I don't blame them.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

エミュレーター 違法 is now only the 4th auto-complete suggestion. The first is エミューレーターとは (What is an emulator?) I guess there's been a sudden surge of lawlessness in Japan.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Right below "Emulator illegal" is "Emulator recommendation" lmao.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

As someone who has played a couple Yakuza games, i consider myself very familiar with Japanese culture. Most people's days involve getting in random fist fights while walking between caberet clubs, restaurants, Club SEGA arcades, underground cage fighting arenas, and karaoke joints

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Japanese people don't go to a hospital after getting brutally beat up in a street fight, they just eat some yakisoba and feel a lot better.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yup. Also, the real estate business is super easy. Mostly just about beating people up, and hiring peoole you've met in your adventures. Yeah, getting into adventures randomly as you're walking around is super common over there. Its part of their culture

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure there's some variant of "are emulators illegal" in search engine auto completes no matter what language you search in.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Actually google's autocomplete is a window into the gestalt consciousness of the yamato race

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Citing a gigacorporation to prove how not-brainwashed-by-gigacorps I am

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, a lot of people probably do search "are emulators illegal" before they become "they're for my backup copies janet-wink"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

but a Japanese in the group

When someone uses $ethnicity without the word person or equivalent following it up, you can just feel the racism oozing from their very soul.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I would argue against you by pointing out that plenty of users here talk about "an italian" or "a brit" or whatever, but then that would require me to recognize the italians and british as people.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

but a Japanese in the group objected

This phrasing kinda has similar vibes to someone insistently calling trans people “the transgenders.” It’s such a weird, petty way to signal bigotry and ignorance.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I thought so too, but then I sort of realised that it's pretty normal "a german, a frenchman and a swede walks into a bar" doesn't sound weird. Nor does "I met an american yesterday, they were very loud".
"A japanese" still looks weird and signals weirdo energy, but it shouldn't. I wonder why?

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Yes that was a cringe comment so who knows if the story is true.

But regarding the point over piracy it is not entire impossible, you know Japan is one of the places where they will criminaly persecute people for piracy and I totaly understand, specialy if you're not particularly tech savvy, someone become paranoid over being put into some random criminal "investigation" for watching pirated shit on Discord.

The part about "Japanese culture" aside, the discord story is plausible to me as pathetic as it sounds.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Japan's copyright laws fucking suck ass and I can't blame anyone living there for sweating about getting caught in their sham of a criminal justice system

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Dude 100% watched youtube history videos and anime and concluded he knew everything

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"A Japanese"

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

weebs genuenly treat japanese like they are a different species, it's wild.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Is this Sean Connery, noted expert on Japan from the 1993 action thriller film Rising Sun?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

discord guy sounds like a massive fucking nerd ngl

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

just tell them you bought a license

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